Both globalization process and the impact of new technologies of communication have recently imposed some radical changes not only on the categories of geography, but also on the same concept of “territory”. This process of transformation is tied to different complex phenomena which intertwine economy, culture and society, opening new perspectives compared to old development models that are now in a deep crisis.
In this scenario, elements such as identity, sustainability and local culture give a potential, unexpected centrality to territories considered by modernist thought as marginal and peripherical.
Starting from a methodological approach in which different disciplines and various research fields converge, this paper delves into processes, mechanisms and transitions within this complex milieu, focusing on the privileged viewpoint offered by listening practice and sound art as a tool and device that can help us to decolonize our gaze and reveal geographies and spaces which are hidden in the surface of modernistic maps, falling apart the authorised combination of materials, unlocking the soundscape as an archive in which documents, voices, objects and silences are scattered.
It’s an approach that evokes a possibility of descaling the world and the spatial-temporary production of Western society through outlining, describing, analysing, performing and interrogating the condition of sound and the processes by which it operates in our relation with the world itself.